Toronto Star ombudsman Don Sellar offers up three scenarios where you get to play Green Eyeshade Person on a kiddy porn story, managing appearances and the ever-popular "taste."

An excerpt:

As news ebbs a little and holiday grog flows more freely, let's play a round of You Be The Editor.

So don an eyeshade and decide how you'd handle three newsroom situations based on real life at the Star. Then view an ombud's comments, spiked with 20/20 hindsight.

Case 1: Big Arrest. Police have arrested six more local men in an international child porn investigation, for a total of 21. At a news conference, the chief says they have "only have one thing in common. That is the criminal approach to their relationship with children."

Police say they've amassed a list of 240 men who snagged explicit photos of children on the Internet. The police chief also reveals he's lobbying Ottawa for stiffer child porn laws.

The theatrical presentation has been seen on TV. For tomorrow's paper, do you play the story big? Do you include the chief's judgmental remark?

PS: The link to the original story is probably dead now, but in his Dec. 11. column, Sellar had a little nitpicking contest. I did well in it. I just wished I could do better in writing clean copy the first time -- or at least catching my mistakes before others do. :)